Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Scoundrel Media Bankruptcy: Glorifying Hillary, Vilifying Trump

Lockstep US political reporting is the most vulgar and disgraceful in modern memory, anywhere in Western societies, revealing unprecedented moral and ethical media bankruptcy.

Praise for a ruthless woman belonging in prison, not high office, shows how low political reporting has sunk. Trump bashing showed political assassination reaching depths never thought possible.

It’s not a pretty picture, exposing how bad presstitution can get. Hillary represents an unprecedented menace.

Yet The New Times promotes her candidacy with daily religious fervor, shamelessly headlining a Tuesday piece “ ‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse,’ “ quoting her shameless Big Lie.

The rest of the puff piece could have been, and likely was, written by Hillary’s staff, expressing undisguised adulation, not a critical or discouraging word or thought - polar opposite fair, impartial commentary and analysis.

NYT: “Clinton (is) warm and animated…Her contempt for Trump (is) clear…’I’m not going to lose’ on November 8, she said.

Fact: When cameras are running, Hillary oozes cordiality. Her private persona is polar opposite, a she-devil, reviling democratic values and rule of law principles, unaccountable for high crimes too great to ignore.

Fact: She despises anyone daring to challenge for the prize she covets - returning the Clinton crime family co-presidency to the White House.

The entire Times article read like a made-for-media Hillary promotion, excluding anything possibly harming her campaign - polar opposite what real journalism is supposed to be, a disgusting display of partisanship.

Yet it defeated its purpose by being excessively long and boring. Most readers don’t go beyond the first half dozen or less paragraphs.

A separate same-day article headlined How Hillary Became ‘Hillary’ was another shameless puff piece promotion, pretending to be legitimate journalism, found nowhere in Times editions on issues mattering most.

“Donald Trump is four centuries too late - He would have enjoyed the wealth and suppression of the 17th century.” Lake Wobegon’s Garrison Keillor embarrassed himself with the rubbish he wrote.

“Donald Trump is one more bullyboy in a world of strongmen.” David Ignatius is best known as a CIA asset, serving its interests, not readers.

“Why we shouldn’t forgive the Republicans who sold their souls. The GOP’s inability to stop Trump shows the party is unfit to lead the country.” Neocon Robert Kagan co-founded the Project for the New American Century (now called the Foreign Policy Initiative), endorsing a permanent US war agenda for unchallenged world dominance.

“Why Hillary Clinton is the right choice for progressives.” Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel continues the publication’s shameless editorial policy from inception, most often supporting America’s imperial agenda and other US policies demanding denunciation.